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Sept. 11, 1951 J. H. PROCTOR REEL Filed May 5, 1947 INVE ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 11,1951

Application May 5, 1947,'seria'1 310,745,992 1 1 Claim. (01. 242-418) :1 V This invention relates to wooden'reelso'n which to wind for storing and'ior shipping heavy material such as rope and 'wire' asdistinguished from spools, bobbins and reels on which-thread of various kinds is-.-to be wound. j

Such reels usuall'y'cannot be shipped back to be rewound although in some cases they may be reused. Generally after the rope or wire has been unwound, the reel is destroyed. While it is necessary that each of such reels should be exceptionally strong and stiff, it is highlydesirable that there should be as few metal parts as possible.

My reel is made entirely of wood and each-head may be a disk or of the multiple arm type with a strengthening plywood disk, the heads being connected together by a plurality of rods forming a barrel or skeleton cylinder. These rods are held at each end and fastened to a disk and to the arms, if used, by means of wooden pins of a special type each pin being made with recesses for an adhesive, such as glue, and with a truncated conical head which passes through a strengthening disk and through some one of the arms; if arms are used. Another advantage of my construction is that instead of using the usual two members crossed to form four arms, I can use three, five, six or more arms, according to the purpose of the reel or I can use a strengthening disk alone as a head at each end with no arms. The construction of my heads with arms and my barrel economize on wood and still I get an exceedingly strong reel suitable for very heavy work and one which may be made of such an inexpensive wood that because it is very strong and is also wholly combustible, it can be burned after being unwound instead of being shipped back to be rewound.

Fig. 1 is an isometric projection of my improved wooden reel with some of the arms cut away.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the reel shown in i 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view in section showing the relationship of an arm, the disc insert, the pins and the bars of my construction.

Fig. 4 is a View similar to Fig. 3, illustrating my method of fixing each pin in each bar.

Fig. 5 is an isometric view of a modified type of bar in the form of rolled sheets of wood or paper.

Fig. 6 is a detailed sectional view of a modified form of arm.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a reel with disc type heads rather than the arms shown in Figs. 1 to 4.

In the drawings H represents generally a reel head'and A repreSentsthe arms associated with each head, the headsshown in Figs. 1, 2 and *3 each having eight arms each made of three layers I, '2, 3 of wood, namely plywood, and eachtapered atwits' inner end Land curved at its tip 5 so as to. form part of ajshaft hole L. each arm also being provided with part of a truncated conical pin head hole marked 6 for the reception of a head It of one of the wooden pins N each of which has a shank I1 and glue recesses [8.

A strengthening plywood disk D made of three or more layers of wood such as H, l2, and I3 is pierced with a corresponding part of each pin head hole 6 and as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 these pin head holes 6 for the wooden pins N are ar-.

ranged in a circle, oval or other shape so that the barrel made of connecting members shown as bars B will form a skeleton which serves as a barrel on which to wind wire, rope or similar ma-. terial. The rim I4 of each strengthening disk D extends well into the cut away part 9 of the middle layer of each arm to fit what may be called an inside arm slot 24.

Each wooden pin N has a truncated conical pin head l6, shank I! and glue recesses l8, which are preferably annular, and in the end of each ,bar B is an axial bar pin hole 1 into which each pin shank l1 fits with a forced fit. This shank I1 and head iii are covered with an" adhesive'C which fills the glue recesses l8 to overflowing and extends between the pin shank l1 and its axial hole 1 and more or less up between its truncated conical head l6 and a head pin head hole 6.

As layers I and 3 of each arm span each arm slot 24, each pin head l6 binds them and layers ll, l2 and I3 of a disk D very firmly together.

As these wooden pins N are forced or driven into place, after the adhesive hardens, the whole structure is firmly held together, the plywood disk D serving as a strengthening and reinforcing member. 7

However, as shown in Fig. 6, each arm such as F can be made of one piece of wood and simply have a slot 34 corresponding with a slot 24.

As shown in Fig. 5, in place of bars such as B, I can use tubes such as M made of rolled sheets of wood or of paper entirely through each of which passes a hole 20. A wooden pin N can be driven into such a hole 20 as far as desired.

As shown in Fig. '7, I can do away with the arms entirely and make each head of a large sized strengthening disk K which forms the entire head and through this I can provide suitable pin head holes 46 of truncated conical form each 3 to accommodate a head 6 of a pin N. The bars can be of the type shown at B or at M.

As shown each disk K is of plywood made up of three layers 2|, 22, 23.

Such bars as B can be in cross section circular, oval, square, oblong, barrel shape or in fact almost any shape.

I prefer to use annular recesses l8 in the shank ll of a wooden pin N, but they may be omitteden'tirely if. the .wood is porous enough to absorb the glue or in other cases as shown in Fig. 4, I can use an end hole l9 to take up any excess.

If a glue spray gun is used, there is not likelyto be too little or too much glue but just enough to fill each recess so that the glue slightly overflows, this excess being absorbedby the pores of the wood and making a strong joint.

I claim:

The combination in a reel; of two reel heads each having arms each with an inside arm slot to -rece ve 'a centrally disposed plywood disk through which and through the arms are a plurality-of truncated conical pin head holes ar-. ranged in a circle each hole with its large end outside; with a barrel made up of a plurality of bars so assembled as to form a skeleton cylinder,

each bar having an axial bar pi'n shank hole at each end, each such hole registering with one of the pin head holes through a disk and an arm in each head; and wooden pins each including a shank with glue recesses and a truncated conical head of substantially the size of a truncated conical pin hole in a head, such recesses being filled to overflowing with an adhesive which extends between the shank and its bar pin shank hole and up between its truncated conical pin head and its pin head hole in a reel.

JOHN H. PROCTOR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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